Starting August 4, I will serve as a Programs
Intern for GRS at the Football for Hope Center in Khayelitsha on the outskirts of Cape
Town, South Africa. My responsibilities as a programs intern will include coach
recruitment and training, as well as support for local staff with the planning,
execution, and evaluation of multiple concurrent projects and community events to
deliver effective interventions. One of these programs, called Champions
League, targets young men ages 18-24 and focuses on gender, masculinity, and
violence in addition to HIV prevention; I am greatly looking forward to the
possibility of bringing the lessons I have learned from starting Colby’s Male Athletes
Against Violence to enhance projects like this and GRS’s overall mission. I'm getting SO excited!
